Crystal structure of the NK1 fragment of HGF/SF suggests a novel mode for growth factor dimerization and receptor binding

Nature Structural Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 72-79

  Chirgadze, Dimitri Y ^a   Hepple, Jonathan P ^b   Zhou, Hongjun ^c   Andrew Byrd, R ^c   Blundell, Tom L ^a   Gherardi, Ermanno ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; GROWTH FACTOR; HEPARAN SULFATE; HEPARIN; SCATTER FACTOR;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DIMERIZATION; KRINGLE DOMAIN; LIGAND BINDING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RECEPTOR BINDING;

ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DIMERIZATION; HEPATOCYTE GROWTH FACTOR; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-MET;

EID: 0032957467     PISSN: 10728368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/4947     Document Type: Article

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